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EPIC and Coalition Urge Senate and Thompson Reuters to Stop Commercial Surveillance

EPIC · · US Federal · Surveillance & Civil Liberties

EPIC and more than two dozen civil rights and privacy organizations sent letters to the Senate and Thomson Reuters urging action to protect Americans from commercial surveillance practices they argue violate Fourth Amendment rights.

Why this matters: Thomson Reuters sells data products that law enforcement and others use to track people without warrants. That is the core issue here. When a private company packages and sells personal data to get around constitutional limits on government surveillance, the Fourth Amendment protection becomes largely theoretical. A coalition this size pushing back in writing is pressure, not policy. The real test is whether the Senate acts or whether Congress keeps letting commercial data brokers serve as a quiet workaround for rights people thought they already had.

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